Essays about: "Crimes of Honour"

Found 5 essays containing the words Crimes of Honour.

  1. 1. Honour killings: a thematic analysis within European newspapers

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Rita Coelho; [2017]
    Keywords : honour; honour crime; honour killings; patriarchal culture; culture; newspapers; Europe; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom; femicide.;

    Abstract : Honour killings are considered by the perpetrators the only path to maintain theirs and their family honour, preventing other's to follow behaviours that move away from traditional patriarchal values. With the aim of exploring how honour killings are characterised, a qualitative study within three European newspapers, in three different languages, was conducted. READ MORE

  3. 2. At war with honour? - Feminist perspectives on female honour and the regulation of wartime rape

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Ebba Coghlan; [2016]
    Keywords : public international law; law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Systematiska våldtäkter av kvinnor i väpnade konflikter är ingen nyhet, utan ett fenomen som drabbat åtskilliga kvinnor, under åtskilliga konflikter, under historiens gång. Men trots att våldtäkter i väpnade konflikter har varit ett utspritt problem, har fenomenet väckt förhållandevis lite intresse inom det internationella samfundet, och regleringar på området har vuxit fram i en långsam takt. READ MORE

  4. 3. Justice Denied in the Name of 'Honour':A Study of Honour Killing between Human Rights and 'Shari'a' in Egypt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Rasha El-Shehawy; [2009]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Throughout the world, harmful traditions to women are carried out within the family, e.g., female genital mutilation, forced marriage and dowry murder. Honour killing practice is considered to be the extreme form thereof for its violent consequences on females' right to life. READ MORE

  5. 4. Crimes of Honour – Females' Right for Support in the Multicultural Society

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Linda Edvardsson; [2008]
    Keywords : Honour; Crimes of Honour; Honour Related Violence; Human rights;

    Abstract : This research demonstrate how crimes of honour functions and consequently could lay the path in which females do need help and support in order to escape from (or manage) their environment of oppression. Thus, females all over the world are violated in the name of honour and every year around 5,000 women and girls are murdered in the name of honour by her relatives. READ MORE

  6. 5. Women Rights and Islam : A study of women rights and effects of Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim feminism in the Kurdish area of Iraq

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Zaynab Khan; [2005]
    Keywords : Iraq; Kurdistan; Women rights; Honour; Islamic fundamentalism; Muslim feminism; United Nations; Islam;

    Abstract : Lack of women rights in the international society is something that UN and other international human organizations are striving against. Women oppression is common in many countries, but is often connected with the Muslim countries. Women oppression is something that is against UN: s definition of human rights. READ MORE